Litigation Counsel The candidate will be a self-starter, highly organized, focused, detail-oriented, and willing to travel for single-day trips and occasionally overnight, as needed for case appearances and for an annual weeklong team meeting. The position requires technical proficiency and experience defending bodily injury, personal injury, first-party property damage, wrongful death, insurance coverage, employment practices, and extra-contractual or bad faith litigation. Litigation work includes but is not limited to case analysis, preparation of motions, pleadings, discovery, conducting depositions, hearings, trials, and communicating with the claims department. Must be able to competently present controversy from inception through a trial while maintaining the independent professional judgment required of a lawyer. Must possess the requisite experience, skill, and judgment required to represent the interests of GuideOne and its policyholders with little or no direct supervision. Should be Licensed to practice law in New York. Should have been licensed or eligible to obtain a license to practice law in New Jersey; A J.D. from an accredited law school. Five or more years of insurance defense litigation experience are required. Trial experience preferred. Should have been admitted to or eligible for admission to federal court; able to timely handle full-time, high volume caseload with little to no direct supervision; able and willing to travel for case-related appearances and a weeklong annual team meeting. Prior in-house experience is a plus.
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